Author: Felix

It happens again and again: No matter how much I prepare and practice and study, no matter how hard I try, working on new songs sometimes feels like talking with a sore throat. I often ask myself how I could possibly come with any good song in the past. In hindsight I can’t hep but…

The Art of Practicing is a guide to making music from the heart. If you have lost the joy for practicing (or never experienced it), if you keep asking yourself why and how you could ever enjoy music as much as you did and want to know where the joy and pleasure (might) have gone.…

Playing the guitar requires a completely different mindset than pushing a mouse around to precisely move a cursor on the screen and hitting buttons – at least for me. Whenever I sit down at my computer to record or arrange songs, this changing between mindsets is what frustrates me the most and steals my energy.

Meet my project board. This is a board on my studio wall which has post-its on it for every song that I finished writing and that needs recording. This way my next releases seem much more in reach than they would if they were just a stack of paper or a bunch of ideas somewhere…

I did a lot of travelling in the past months. And even though I had my guitar with me and played a lot, I kind of lost my thread in terms of making music and writing songs. Ever since I released The Trial last October I felt like in a dead-end and it showed in…

Art & Fear – Observations On The Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking is a small, concise and wonderful book about the process of making art.

“The Inner Game of Music” is a book inspired by the popular “The inner game of Tennis” which deals with, well, the inner game: the voices, the doubts the fears most of us experience when performing.

Dear Fans – sorry for not posting anything for a while. I was on the road and got involved

Here is the music video for “The Trial”, based on Andrea Christens magnificent artwork: